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Quick tips: Industrial Floor Care

Rarely in the commercial cleaning business will you hear the term, "general cleaning."

That is because each cleaning task is unique; unique cleaning problems produce unique cleaning solutions.

In following this adage, the maintenance of industrial floors is no different.

Rather than blindly jumping into an industrial floor care project, building service contractors (BSCs) and in-house service providers (ISPs) need to formulate
an all-encompassing plan that is understood and adhered to by everyone.

Included in this plan are things like: Training and education; selecting the proper tools, chemicals and procedures for the task; voicing expected cleaning
results; and having a chain of command that allows for accountability.

Whether you have been maintaining industrial floors for years, or you have thought about it but were unsure how to begin, the following tips should clarify
your goals — or help you establish new ones.

Know your plan

Floor maintenance works best when the duties, frequency of tasks and other services necessary to maintain the floor have been outlined and written down.

Everyone involved in floor maintenance should be aware of and be a part of the floor maintenance plan.

The floor maintenance plan should also outline exactly how the floors are to be maintained.

For instance, it should spell out what kind of equipment is to be used, when floors are to be cleaned, how often they are to be refinished and what chemicals
and products are necessary to refinish them.

The facility manager should determine how much will be invested in floor maintenance.

In other words, what is the floor worth?

This will help determine the equipment, labor and amount of time necessary to maintain the floor.